Air Pollution Environmental Protection Toxic Substances Control Act 
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
When we breathe the air or drink the water, we’re taking in any potential contaminants all at once—with effects that can combine or even compound. Site assessments for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act , or ‘Superfund’, include consideration of multiple exposure pathways and pollutants.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 9, 2024
To explore a small piece of what is at stake, let’s take a quick look at some of the rules currently under review at the EPA: Air emission reporting requirements If finalized and implemented, this rule will improve the way air pollution emissions are estimated and collected by the EPA.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 21, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with the Herculean and crucial task of assessing which chemicals are innocuous and which ones need to be banned or restricted because they pose a threat to our health or the environment. Any of these shared characteristics can be effectively used to group chemicals into classes.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency finalized strong safeguards on wasteful and dangerous methane emissions that will significantly cut climate-warming pollution and associated air toxics. Last December, the U.S. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 18, 2024
3 notices] ( PA Bulletin, page 6660 ) Air Quality Permits -- Appalachia Midstream Services, LLC - Compressor Station: DEP renewed a GP-5 Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Middlebury Twp., Greene County. [3 Tioga County. ( Tioga County. ( Washington County. (
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency, urging the agency to move forward with its proposed high-priority designation of vinyl chloride under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). On October 15, the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC) submitted a public comment to the U.S.
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building.
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